More anti-woman batshit fuckery

[veronica_rich]

I have a friend who tries very hard to get me to be reasonable about the GOP, who means well and tries to convince me that people are not their parties and that being a particular party member does not indicate what kind of person one is. She may be right - after all, there are Democrats who agree with the measure the GOP initially proposed to redefine what it means to be raped in this country - but considering I see more Republicans behind bullshit such as this, I really have a difficult time remaining objective.

(Incidentally, I wrote to my Congressman about H.R. 3, explaining that "forcible rape" has always been tough to define under law - that's why it hasn't been thus far - and that rape victims already have a hard time proving their allegations even with visible bruises and injuries sometimes. I got a canned reply that was politely phrased but might as well have said "I don't care. Eat shit and die, woman.")

Their newest shiny anti-woman proposal (phrasing courtesy of Daily Kos, I can't take credit - it's also called it the "Let Women Die Bill," which admittedly has more zing) is H.R. 358, a measure pushing to make it legal for doctors to let pregnant women die rather than administering an abortion or referring them to a doctor who has no moral objections to performing one. Frankly, I don't know many physicians who would refuse to perform an abortion to save a dying woman - it's just part of their oath and their mindset to NOT let the more viable patient die - but all it would take is one.

I am getting really tired of living in a nation ruled by mythology (not to mention romanticism and unrealistic expectations of parenthood and gender roles). We're no better than ancient people who cowered every time lightning struck, that they had angered Zeus or offended Thor in some manner.

Comments

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Well, you're preaching to THIS choir. I am in a perpetual state of nausea these days as I cannot escape the tributes to Ronald Reagan. And if this is the ultimate evidence of why I abhor the Republican party I don't know what is. Fortunately, Salon is running nearly daily articles refuting the whitewashing of Reagan's terms as governor and president. He wasn't an evil man so much as a stupid man. And I mean someone with the I.Q. of a brick. But like George Bush, he was the puppet of some very smart men. Now he is the torch bearer for all that is Republican these days. A man who closed the mental hospitals here in California, ignored AIDS, supported Ollie North's machinations in Central America, I could go on but I won't.

I think that the Republicans are being foolish politically. They are pandering to the super rightwing of their party in response to Obama shifting to the center. They are alienating their centrist base with these proposals. Hey, you know what? Most people are finding out that they like not getting bumped from their medical plans for pre-existing conditions. Most people like being able to keep their kids on their medical plans. Small businesses find that because of the tax break they can offer their employees medical insurance. Which means they keep people and have happier employees. WAKE UP, ASSHOLES!

[beldar.livejournal.com]

Ah, Ollie North. I first realized that conservative America had gone off the rails when North was invited to speak at a major Baptist church and hailed as a "Hero" -- when what he was considered a hero for was standing up to the "Libruls" in Congress (boo hiss Congressional Democrats we hates them) and bald-faced lying. Sure he got in trouble for that but he was lying for the greater (political) good.
Hearing about that, I couldn't help but think that the Scriptures the church so reveres lists "all liars" as being among the eternally condemned. [churchlady] Isn't that special? [/]
Voted for Reagan in 84 as it was in my own self-interest (was in the Army at the time) but haven't been on good terms with the GOP since.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

What is so fascinating (and horrifying) is that they truly believe their own press. I mean, here you have someone who in most people's eyes is a criminal, and yet he runs for the Senate with the expectation that he will win. I understand he was shocked when he lost. It's like Henry Kissinger being unable to travel to certain countries because he is considered a WAR CRIMINAL. It's this sense that the rules don't apply to them. That Dick Cheney can play fast and loose with the Constitution because it doesn't apply to the President. I wonder how he feels now that he's not pulling the strings of the presidencey. Is he so cavalier about the abuse from the Oval Office now that he doesn't have a puppet in there? Inquiring minds want to know.

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

"I think that the Republicans are being foolish politically. They are pandering to the super rightwing of their party in response to Obama shifting to the center. They are alienating their centrist base with these proposals.

- Ohhh yes, the RINO (Republican In Name Only) concept. Since when did the Republican Party become a bleepin' country club? Oh yes, Ms. Palin. She was the one who popularized that, wasn't she? *is disgusted*

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Reagan himself was pretty well brain-damaged by the time he was in office, what with the Alzheimer's setting in. His advisors did a great deal of the damage (notice how a Bush and a Rumsfeld and Cheney has been behind most of our nation's bad decisions for the last 40 years?), though, in his name. Did you see where Reagan's son was pointing out that Palin, who was praising Ronnie-baby to the heavens, has little in common with his father fiscally or otherwise? It was pretty entertaining. It's like Worse and Worser, and the GOP has no sane choices.